What are the causes of breast pain

Breasts are very important to women. If modern women do not pay attention to maintaining their breasts, it is easy to cause breast diseases. Breast diseases such as breast hyperplasia and breast cancer are particularly common. When breast pain occurs, it is necessary to pay attention to it. If breast pain is caused by pathology and is not treated in time, the condition will not only worsen, but will also have a great impact on physical health.

What are the causes of breast pain?

1. Insufficient breast development, forming nodules

Many women experience breast pain, which is related to their hormone levels. Insufficient breast development, medically known as incomplete involution, often causes breast pain.

The process of changes in hormone levels caused by women's menstruation is like the ebb and flow of the tide. After the tide recedes, mud and sand will be left behind. These "mud and sand" that are not left behind when the tide recedes are equivalent to the epithelial cells that are constantly shed and renewed in the breast. They remain in the mammary ducts and cause incomplete degeneration.

Many women will feel many nodules in their breasts. Whether these nodules are lump-shaped, sand-shaped, nodular-shaped, strip-shaped, or plaque-shaped, they are all normal phenomena. Before pregnancy, the mammary ducts are blocked by accumulated epithelial cells, forming hard nodules. However, after pregnancy, due to the influence of estrogen and progesterone, the breasts are fully developed and the nodules disappear without treatment.

2. Third degree pain requires medical attention as soon as possible

Breast pain is divided into three degrees: first degree is pain felt when touched with the hand, second degree is pain felt when moving, and third degree is pain at rest, which means pain felt even when lying in bed. First-degree pain does not require treatment, second-degree pain can be solved by taking medicine, and third-degree pain is also called severe pain, so you can go to the doctor.

3. Breast hardness has nothing to do with disease

In addition to breast pain, the hardness of the breasts can also be graded: one degree is as soft as the lips, two degrees is moderately soft and hard like the nose, and three degrees is as hard as the forehead. But whether it is soft or hard, it does not indicate any disease.

If you feel a "swelling" in your breast and it is symmetrical on both sides, then you can consider it as ordinary hyperplasia. If the "swelling" changes before and after menstruation, then there is no need to worry about cancer.

4. Chest muscle strain

This is usually caused by excessive labor or lifting excessive weights. The chest pain caused by this situation is not a big problem. You just need to rest and be careful not to lift excessive weights.

5. Caused by disease

It is more common in costal neuralgia, costochondritis, heart disease, lung disease and liver disease. Speaking of liver disease, it involves hepatitis B. As we all know, hepatitis B patients often suffer from liver damage, which can cause lesions in the liver and surrounding organs, involving the liver capsule, and there are nerves on the liver capsule, which may spread to the chest and cause chest pain, mostly concentrated on the right side of the human body.